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        "summary": "Barclays failed to enhance its compliance procedures after it bought Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.s advisory business in 2008.",
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        "prettyDate": "September 22, 2014",
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        "summary": "The SEC awarded more than $30 million to a whistle-blower in its largest payout from a program started in 2011 to encourage people to come forward with evidence of securities fraud.",
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        "prettyDate": "September 22, 2014",
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        "summary": "Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay $5 million to settle U.S. regulatory claims that its brokerage unit failed to prevent an employee from trading on nonpublic information related to the 2010 acquisition of Burger King Holdings Inc.",
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        "uri": "/2011/12/01/smart-goals-focus-on-results/",
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        "prettyDate": "December 01, 2011",
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        "summary": "With the first of the year on hand, many benefits professionals will be making the business equivalent of New Years resolutions: a business plan.",
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        "prettyDate": "November 01, 2011",
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        "summary": "Why do knowledge, integrity and stability matter and whats so important about listening to the client?",
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        "uri": "/2011/10/01/the-football-broker-connection/",
        "title": "The football-broker connection",
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        "prettyDate": "October 01, 2011",
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        "summary": "Producers too often run their business without letting their teammates know whats important. Everyone may have a general sense of the mission, but not on what they need to do to make it happen.",
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        "uri": "/2011/09/01/dont-be-afraid-to-cross-sell/",
        "title": "Don’t be afraid to cross-sell",
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        "prettyDate": "September 01, 2011",
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        "summary": "Why is it that 16-year-olds can be taught to sell acres of deep fried potatoes to hamburger buyers, but many sales professionals find it difficult to even suggest to a health insurance client they might want to consider dental coverage or group life or disability? ",
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        "uri": "/2011/08/01/optimism-is-a-brokers-best-bet/",
        "title": "Optimism is a broker's best bet",
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        "prettyDate": "August 01, 2011",
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        "summary": "Health care reform is bringing dramatic changes to our industry, our profession and our businesses. No breaking news there.",
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        "uri": "/2011/07/26/technology-not-the-be-all-end-all/",
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        "prettyDate": "July 26, 2011",
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        "summary": "Being first is rarely necessarily and not always a good idea. What matters is not having the latest technology, but rather having the right technology.",
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        "title": "Technology: not the be-all, end-all",
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        "prettyDate": "July 01, 2011",
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        "summary": "Every day a new miraculous technology arises from the primordial ooze that is innovation. The latest tablet device arrives with great fanfare. Apple upgrades its i whatever.",
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